Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpose, to express opinions and convey news, and not simply for the sake of having a paper. General college news is gathered and topics of universal educational interests discussed. We can read in this that those different colleges have stepped beyond the line of the old regime, helping to round a man out generally, give him the best of everything to fit him for life and not stuff him with a stipulated amount in a particular time. The changed characters of the men are the fruit of all this...
...would like or else must go to the trouble of writing out the names upon slips of paper and putting these upon the desks. We all know how disagreeable it is to come into an examination room late and then be obliged to spend five minutes in wandering round in a vain attempt to find a particular blue book, but it is certainly much more disagreeable for those who are already at work to be disturbed by the moving about of the late comer. Examinations in themselves are far from pleasant, but under existing circumstances they are a necessity...
...pupil his ignorance, and then leaving him to help himself as best he could. He often asked a question, especially if a visitor was in his classroom, merely to open the way for a joke or a sarcasm. He once passed a question about a peculiar Greek accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when...
...explain these actions. The report reads: Students at Davidson College have of late been so riotous as to attract general attention. They take possession of Davidson College station as the trains stop, go through the cars singing ribald songs regardless of the presence of ladies, and parade the country round about so that women are afraid to be found abroad. This hostility seems to be especially directed against preachers, whom they compel to get off the walks and insult in every possible way. The Faculty seems to be unable to maintain order. Recently the Methodist Annual Conference was held...
...comments on the English game of foot-ball :-"The heavy list of casualties reported from the two universities last Saturday will revive the protest against the dangerous character of foot-ball. And yet, in spite of all protests, the game increases in popularity, notably at the two universities and round London. A hundred and twenty matches are now played in the suburbs where thirty or forty were played fifteen years ago. and in the north the system of county matches makes rapid strides. Is the game more dangerous than it was ? Most of the accidents occur under the Rugby Union...